Barry Meier

Barry Meier, a reporter for The New York Times, has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award. His reporting at The Times has concentrated on the intersection of business, medicine and the public’s health. During his career, he has exposed the dangers of various drugs and medical products, including a defective heart device and a generation of flawed artificial hips. He was the first journalist to shed a national spotlight on the abuse of OxyContin.

Mr. Meier is the author of an e-book, “A World of Hurt: Fixing Pain Medicine’s Biggest Mistake” (The New York Times, 2013), and “Pain Killer: A ‘Wonder’ Drug’s Trail of Addiction and Death” (Rodale, 2003). Before he joined The Times in 1989, Mr. Meier worked at The Wall Street Journal and at New York Newsday. He lives in New York with his wife and their daughter.

February 5, 2015, Thursday

Two former executives of NantHealth said that the company made fraudulent claims about the reliability of its system, and may have used company donations to attract federal funds so a hospital could buy its products.